What is the difference between guard and wing?

Wing is a synonym of guard.

In sports terms the difference between guard and wing

is that guard is a player playing a position named guard while wing is a player occupying such a position, also called a winger.

In lang=en terms the difference between guard and wing

is that guard is an employee, normally travelling in the last vehicle of a train, responsible for the safety of the train while wing is human arm.

As nouns the difference between guard and wing

is that guard is a person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something while wing is an appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.

As verbs the difference between guard and wing

is that guard is to protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend while wing is to injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the arm.

guard

English

Alternative forms

* (all obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

A person who, or thing that, protects or watches over something.

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(military) A squad responsible for protecting something.

A part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous parts.

(Australia) A panel of a car that encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.

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(basketball) A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or center.

(cricket) The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket; see take guard .

(American football) Either of two offensive positions between the center and each of the offensive tackles, whose main responsibilities are to protect the quarterback, and open up "holes" through which offensive players can run.

(sports) A player playing a position named guard.

(rail) An employee, normally travelling in the last vehicle of a train, responsible for the safety of the train.

(computing, programming) A Boolean expression that must evaluate to true for a branch of program execution to continue.

Synonyms

* (part of machine blocking dangerous parts) protection * (panel of a car enclosing a wheel) fender

Derived terms

* be on one's guard * bodyguard * changing of the guard * crossing guard * guard dog * guardian * lifeguard * mudguard * off guard * on guard * rear guard * safeguard * vanguard

Verb

(en verb)

To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.

* Shakespeare

For Heaven still guards the right.

To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.

Guard the prisoner.

To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety.

Careful people guard against mistakes.

To protect the edge of, especially with an ornamental border; hence, to face or ornament with lists, laces, etc.

* Shakespeare

The body of your discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and the guards are but slightly basted on neither.

To fasten by binding; to gird.

(Ben Jonson)

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wing

English

(wikipedia)

Alternative forms

* whing (obsolete) * weng (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.

(slang) Human arm.

Part of an airplane that produces the lift for rising into the air.

One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.

One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.

(botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.

(botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.

A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.

Passage by flying; flight.

to take wing

* Shakespeare

Light thickens; and the crow / Makes wing to the rooky wood.

Motive or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.

* Shakespeare

Fiery expedition be my wing .

A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.

Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.

An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.

A fraction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.

An organizational grouping in a military aviation service:

# (British) A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.

# (US) A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.

(British) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.

(nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.

(nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.

(Totten)

(sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.

(sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger

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(botany) A flattened extension of a tridimensional plant organ.

(typography, informal, rare) =

* 1985 , David Grambs, Literary Companion Dictionary , page 378

? wing , wedge, h?cek, inverted circumflex (Karel ?apek )

One of the sides of the stage in a theatre.

Synonyms

* (panel of a car) fender (US), guard (Australia) * (sports position) forward

Derived terms

* left wing * on the wing * redwing * right wing * take under one's wing * wingman * wing it * winged * winger

Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the arm.

(lb) To fly.

*:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

To add a wing (extra part) to.

(lb) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.

(lb) To throw.